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Subject:Re: context sensitive toolbars? From:"Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- BEST -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:50:15 -0700
At 12:16 AM -0700 7/31/98, David O'Brien wrote:
>I do that to, but what I'm trying to do is document someone else's app, for
>which they have different toolbars, buttons etc., available depending on
>the screen or applet being used. Does that make them context sensitive
>toolbars? How about screen dependent toolbars? It's the adjective that
>I'm looking for, not a work method.
"Context-sensitive" is a pretty standard term for items that behave like
this, yes. It's not a term that's specific to help systems; I've seen it
used widely for anything that depends on what the application is doing (for
example, toolbars that change depending on whether you're editing a drawing
or text).
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